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a ii ~• , HOUSE OF COMMONS, PRWAY, MARCH 30. . LORD VISCO•UNT WELLINGTON. SMITIIFIEtII MARKET SIR GEORGE BARLOW. • _formation, while it would rob hitn of the means doing justice to his own charailer and c,nduci ; least let them not consent to • the. suppression of ii-einformation which his dispatches would be found to contain. . • Lord-GtiEY pursued nearly the same line of argil, ment as that insisted upon by Lord Grenville. He, noticed an iticonsistencil in the opinions deli+ et:et' on a former occasion, reTeCting Gen. Ch - esta, - -by - ttr Marquis. When defending the condu6l of Lord Wellin ton itventering Spain, great stress was laid by 'the N:tble Mtarqhis on the distingu shed is • lents-of that General, and otifhe excellent discipline and appointment of - the Spanish army Under his 6 , tuniitnd. Athl indeed after the d:•,!strticrion of the r - c-,,ttlat Spanish troops tuider Genera! Catiatio , , it was 110 Common nierit to collect, organize, ' arid c‘tplitte, -3 new artily out of the ruins of ihoSe, that were disp.rsed. .Sach, -however, was the merit of General Coesta—but now, it seems, that he has no ' I.llorit at, all, when it no-longer can serve; any pur pose to suppose he hes: The .Noble Earl also ( . 4)- - .4 - era ed Iliat a different -reason was rimy . ascribed for -thee: delay in the march of General" Vene : , aS to tlr Formerly the delay was ascribed to a prasi- . fforn- the Junta that he: should not stir. .:Now it .appears to have been Occasioned by informa tion tec ! :iyed from Sir A. WellesleY of his ineaPa . city to move Rona want .ot provisions and the means - of: transport. ' The Noble Earl concluded by denim--; • ing _the mischief that ,must ace: tie froM the diselo . sore of fans which would indhce the enemy to abandon that line of humane treatment of their pri soners which was so conspicuously displayed towards the British troops lett behind at Talavera, and sti mutate them to , tesort to-exceSses in retaliation in ' compatible With the-practice of civilized warfare. The Marquis of WELLESLBY obseiyed, that" the Papers now before their-LordshipS referred to a dif ferent circumstance itythe conduct of GeneralVene gas from that which the'Noble Earl supposed. The • eircutnstance now,alluded to was subsequent to that connened with the simultaneous movement of Ge • Petal Vetiegas I,dith Sir A. Wellesley. The luestion was then put on the motion of Lord Grenville, and negativedwithout a division. Adjobrned till Monday. • The SPEAKER infornied, the. House that he bad received it Letter from Lientenant• General Lord Viscount Wellington, dated VizeO, 6th :March, 1g t o,' in answer to the Vote of Thanks •of this House, conveyed to him by the Right Hon. Gentle- Anan, in a Letter of the date of the - 2d Febrn iry.—. The Gallant and Noble Lord expresses his ackn,o.e ledgments for the letter, the contents of, which be :states that he communicated to the Officers and troops ender his Command = that he enterLiins h g:. ensc ut gratiuide for the hoi,our contemd on which sentiinent the Otlicees Troops c;,ncur, aid than he should persevere hi that line o f condtict which had'catled forth the Thanks of Par liament, by a zealot .di,chartie of his military dtities. The answer of the gable LOrd was or- deiA to b. enure-.t on the JotirtiAs of- the_lionse. 'Mr. Mra.Listi presc,lkted a Petition from the Trus tees ottlie - Hampstead Thad against the Bill now petiddig in Pat - Ha - meta 'foe removing Smithfield ',Ain On the riaOtion ofSir CHARLES PRICE, the second matting of the above 13111 was ordered tor Thurs day Petitio6 having been laid on the table ,. SUPPLY. Mr. IYlytypow moved the -Rouse to go.into a Committee of Supply. The. amount of Exchequey Billie Oingtending, and of monies 'lssued Under ad dresses, not made good by 'Parbament; were reh;r . 'red Co the said Cornmittee. The Hon. Gentleman in the Comiriittee Molted; that the sum of 15,1651: 3s. 6d, be granted to Make good so much money issued pursuant ,to addreses ; and that 1,600;0001. be granted 'for ExaeqUer services. The ReSolu tions having been :greed to-, the House resumed, 'and the Report was ordered for Monday. The Motion respeeling the Salaries of the Judges of Ireland and Scotland was postponed till Monday, on the. Motion of the Chancellor of the Ex4dit quer. Mr. CaE.Eyiivrose to ask the. Right Honourable • 'Gentleman opposite, whether it was in the contem plation of. the India Company and the Board of Con- . trota to recal Sir George Barlow: from Madras_; be cause if no such intention was manifested, he should give notice of a motion on the subjea,, , . • The CLIANCELOR of the .EXCHEQUER rose to "ans‘ter the Hon. Gentleman (but the Right Hon. Gentleman spoke across the.table . in so low a tOne, tliat ue could dot.dis.tinttly hear him) ; we tinder 7 stood him express his surprise that .the_ Honour, able Gentleman - should entertain anidea 'of the kind, nod tOassure him thatsuch , a step was not in the conteo:Vation at the GOvernment • •• Mr...City.6;a4 . then observed, that, 'understanding Do such Ste t s ' tite,n,_heshou,l‘t on this day r t o night. mov. .efor Papers respcaing the late %laot tnnate trausattions in, the Nradras Mr. G!SA:,,l4'natiertaig to .some observations be t a d in 'de 5011 e tint: Sip= upon the l o teport ut the Committev ot , li quiry respecting transattions in the. Sick llUrt Department, wished to be informed he then understood the fact to be) if any prose- ctit ion had been or was still going on against Dottor Mayne foOis pecuniary defalcations in that depart ; • Mr., CnortaNre,plivd, that it happened to him to I:.ilon.v that the tact was as the Hon. Gentleman sup . vii;:(1, a prosecution had_ been commenced against the Doctor and.,was going on very lately. , The foartn, filth, and sixth Reports of the Com -mittee on the Irish endowed Schools were brought u p, and 'ordered to be printed. $ message front the Lords announced that their Lordship: , had passed a Bill,for making a Settlement upoil Lady Essex by Lord Essex, to which they de stral the concurrence of this House.—The Bill was read a first time:, ADIOURNED DEBATE ON THE EXPEOITION T-0 • THE scuELLYr. Oriler of the DAy for resuming the debate otl the Ekpedilion to Waldheren having been read, fir Tu.ostAs rFurvr,oN rose to offer his opinion s . . . . - , • upon the iubjeEt. - The Honourable , Baronet ob. , served, that afterahe very long and able discn.sion which thi4 subject had undergone,_ be should only be . wasting the time of .that • House were he to detain ' then) long. It cimild not be supposed that he could add any thing.to .the arguments already - adduced in . favour of the Resolinions of the Noble-Lord nor ' t hat .he could a naaLy ae a ttleeaideneeawith lietier.effett t ban - tra - t Noble Lord had done. It would be ne cessary, hoWever, before he stated hii opiniohs-up on the great ,question, to premise, that the restric-: - tions attached upon all thelinisiers, and: did .raft connect with diem the. heads of the military part o the Expedition—in short, that censure was iinputable to those persons who composed the Catiinetthat every Than N4ho voted on that occasion was : equally responsible for the bad success of the Expedition.--, In considesing the question, it appeared to: him as brarrching„intO three heads : First„ what was the ob- jeCt of the Expedition ? Secondly . , What means bad beep used te cal ry the objeM int; etrea? anti Thirdly-, whether Ministers had been justified in their endea, . voupt to attain it ? With respect to the first ques tion" much stress had beet, laid by Gentlemen oppo- Site on theithportance of the obj,•6l—the possession of the Wand ; and 'it had been : stated by a Right ion. Gent. (the Ex-Secretary for Foreign` Affairs,) That the Austrian GoVernment considered it of high iropOrtance, as making a diver - SIM( in their favour ? but what rand die ,- apers, on the table in that respeat W4y, those , paperg she yed that the Right Honour- . able Gentaanan's assertion was tontaded in error, for • they proved the contrary. They suageated a plan that fight have had. the effeci of making a diver- - skin in favour of Austria,: but Ministers. did not at tend to the suggestion. It was asked by the Aus - trim\ Government that _a British force of cavalry and - artiller,' might a6t in Sially:and ' the Medi!er rapean. Minis:erg' objea, lie(vcver a was to assail (as they , stand in answer) the French tetritorie t , and to "create a diversion, and with this • vie a . the sent the . largest expedition that ever quitted the shores of England to the Island of Walcheren. It had been stated by a • gut ant General (Cra-w- , ford); that in . so doing . the atiee tion - of at ne : French war diverted,' and a great part of theirforce was dtaix-n from - the Dauube ; he hal alsb irgated, that if the •British fierce had been sent to toe North of Germany the loss would have'been very great. Did - he mean to say 'that the. numbers of killed. and wounded would 'have been greater than those on the Sick iiSt of W'ulcheren ? . So far from the expedi„ , don having drawn off . the etioiny7sdOrce - frofti.the Danube, the force in that quarter was increased.. The Hon. Baronet in cosidering the objna-of the ,expedition, thought it .was• but just to take into esti . illation the risk That Was run, and to see whether' that risk was : . commensuote with the object.. Tile object Was to destroy the . arsenals and ',basin at Fl i nching ; then came the quest* as to the means s employed to secure that object. Mini4ierg had cert. Stilted the Opinions oitive General Officers, and the concurrent opinions of - those military chara:aers 'were, that in attempting to accomplish the 'object great i : isk was-crewed. It was not a little extraor dinary, when, that in these. consultations, recourse • was not had to the opinion of Lord Chathaat, nor to Sir Eyre Coote.. Was it not singular that Ministers should not deign to consult the Pirst and. Second in a ComMandol,this great Expedition, the life and soul of it, on whoin every thing Was to 'depend ? The ' Hon. Baronet then referred to the evidence of Sir "Dataid • Dandas; to shew, that - at• the tittle of the . projected Expedition, out of the army of 105,000 men, a firce of 15,000 could not be mustered to send to accomplish the object of, taking the ships in the harbour, and yet my, .Lord Castlereagh desired : that secrecy should be . Observed, for on the smallest alarm, the enemy would withdraw their -ships into the harbour, and a go up to Flushing. At that time it was known to the Noble Lord that. wenty ships had got out and were at Antwerp, therefore the ob ject of the Expedition, for the ships were gone, and - consequently were out of the reach of capture; What was the evidence of Sir Richard Strachan, who reltictantly came forward, to be employed in the Expedition ; that gallant Officer had told Min- seers that be did not like the intelligence they ' had received, and upon which they Were going 'to send so large a force 'out of the country; they did not know any • thing, of the place ;they were about to attack. The Hon. Baronet stated, that he had been in WalcheretOnd that any person " could ascend the steeple. of the chuuch at Middle - --' burgh, hang out a handkerehief, and in week -19,000 soldiers might be marched from France to the 'assist ince of-the people of the Island. Sir R. - ' Strachan had informed Ministers, that though they might take Flushing, there was no chance of keep ing it ; he bad also desired to know whether they Were aware that it. was necessary to have pilots for the ships,',One in each ; it bad been proved they were not, for only one pilot Was in the whole Sept. The Hon. Gentleman said, Sir Home Popham; too, recommended an early departure in order that the ' Ex`pedition might arrive before the unhealthy season came on, and he, too, urged the absolute necessity, of having pilots. After these salutary admonDions, what did the Noble Lord? Why he sent out a fleet 1 of upwards of thirty,Aail of the line, the best equip ped, with the exception of pilots, that ever acid, the command of which was given act, a Noble Lord whom ,he would not 'speak . ill of,, btu' of whose apPointment from one end of the country to the other, general expressions of surprise were ex cited. The Noble Commander, ignoratit'Of the si tuation of the plaCe, he was destined to proceed . against, was obliged fo acknowledge that - faait ; lid did not even' know that`there was. an arsenal pro tetled by grins, nor a dock-yard; he knew nothing of Fort Lillo, nor of Lielkenshoek; in short;that he did not know that on his arrival lie sliculd ',b.; fain any thing. The Naval Commander was not acquainted ‘iath the Channel. Would it not be said that under these circumstances great responsibility, attached to Ministers ? The Hon. Baronet then pro ceeded to make some observations' upon the deduce lions ftoin the force, in the event of their occupying the different places in. the. Island,' in order to spew that our force would be so detached as not to be able to cope with the enemy, whose force on the i 1 th August-, at . Breda, Bergen-Op -Zoom, and its - vicinity,: amounted to upwards of 26,090, .ef which number 10,000 were regular troops,' the remainder conscripts.. Under these cure eumstances, he thought •LortiChatharri acted wisely in calling a-consultation of General,GifiCers upon the necessity of evacuating the place, as the Climate was .so unhealthy, and the ski; daily increasing. Siir=lti- • .olrard Stradian had written home, on. thet9thof ' . oetriher, stating, -- .that it . would be thaadYisable to retain the Island any longer: It had' betm said by a Right H. Gentleman, that though LordChathamn arrived in .England on the .t 4th September, 'atid Isl.:Md . was retained till the 19th October, we kept . -for At is-: for Count Stadion, the Austrian Minister, com plained in bider terms of the usage his Court had ry -ceived in not sending a force into the N rth of Ger: many instead of Walcheren. Ministers could there- ,fo?e hate no object in contemplation, but to conti nue a prospect that was hopeless of success: The Eiipeditinn,:,he believed; originated in the Nobkt . Lord's ,(Castlereagh) unfortunate predilection for evnteing the military spirit- and . the martial character • of ,Greirt - 13rioin, • which, it per.ievered in, , infallibly, in his opinion; ruin the country. The Ruler of France 'surelyhod never experienced so Much joy, as, in seeing -the martial spirit of this. . - country buried in the pestilential vaults of Walche ren, at the experce of so Many thhusand liveS.- If the Noble Lord had joined the 39,000 . brave men sent out in this expedition to the, 28,000-under:General Wellington, and brdered them to, a& in the :Penin sula, Ike should haVe had .sorne hopes, and was sure the Noble Lord could not have dilne the sick more service than to have sent them to Spain. The RiOtt Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Coining) from his speech the other night, evidently , shewed that from the first he = had no hopes of success from the expedition. The :I-16n. Bart.could not conceive what right the Itt.Hoil. Gent. had to declare that he should vote against the Resolution~- Why, he was one of the accused, and With equal j us ;ice ;night a criminal jump into the.jury box. in a Court Of : Justice and say, " Conic, / will make one among.you."—The proper cour-e to pur sne would be 161 the R•gin Hon. GentivaizM to with draw when the vote was about to be taken:: The Uon. Baronet, after making some further observa tions, in which he attribu;e I the losses to the des unions in his Majesty's Cr!oncils, who were waiting , tot the Eastern .Star (Margins Welles;ey) to illumine. the dark horizon, concluded ;by-supporting the Re solutions of the Noble -Lord: . General' LiFTUS said, that he had listened with the same degree of attention to the Hon. Baronet's • speech as he had - td all that had been . advanced by the Hon. Gentlemen who had spoken upon the pre sent important subject, aed was.'convinced that the more this subje& was discussed, provided it was wash 4.t.ternper . and patience that had hitherto; en much to the credit of the House, shewn itself throughont the debate, the more the country would ,see that Ministers were bound to undertake such an enterprise as that which had been undertaken against. the great and growing force of the enemy in the. Scheidt ; • that to consider .the important question fairly, they Must:look to the. 3C:ttlatiitiatitiOri of 141-• rep;:-• at the tinae thiS expedition took plase, pat:tic:n. 7 ; larly to the'situation of :the French. and ••Austrian. . armies - on the Danube, and the severe neck the French had - met with, wl2ich•obliged . Buonaparte to lay.upou his arms for such a leiyoli of time, waiting for reinforcements from the interior of France, from the interior of Holland, from the Netherlands, and from.the very shores of the Scheldt. Therefore, if there ever was a tiniefor this country to make a great exertion; it was at the tune this expedition took place, which was nyt only a. great diversion for our ally, the Emperor of Austria, but also wTs that which we w eie oiled upon to make front our, own. sduation, cost what it would. That a Government that consulted the good of the people ought. eVer to ba mindful -in pi cawing_ against any sudden attack ; and what ever the. people may say or think, whatever. those who have only the interest of the people at heart may wish fur, yet a Government who are mindful of the true interest of the State, ought to be prepared - for the preservation of that State. The Honourable Ge neral then desired they ould look to France with all her gigantic powers at prevent—to look at her in' possession .of the Netherlands,— to look. •at her hi' possession of the Flemish ports, and then to • look at the Narrow seas, and to recoiled that Holland _was not that Holland that Once could . and did preserve the balance of Europe, duel then fairly to lay their handsupon their hearts and say, if a.Governineut Coto ! soiling ate security of the country were not bound to undertake 'such an enterprize as that which had been undertaken against the enemy's alarf ning and growing force in the Scheldt ? That it. must have long since . been.seen, that if France was alloWed to keep pos session of the Netherlands:fin - any length of time, that it would _not be in' the powerof all . EaroPe to set any bounds. to the progress of her. arms, That Ave had seen the United Provinces falling. under her power, and that she had all the command - of that power at present ; that §be had carried her artni in to Germany, and her conquest there - as far as she pleased ; and that her great object hiowvas,- tojpos sess herself of the counnand•ot the Ni:TroVrseas, so that our trade should neither go out 'or ieinm,.but at her pleasure; that it. was' almost ~fatal ..to England that France should be in possession of the -Fietnish ports, •for if any accident was, to :tidal our fleets .at sea s that great extent of coast, our north- vast coast was naked and open to the enemy—that the iailure of the Expeditiou led him meali upon M misters. to pay hiteotion to that ;tort h-.east cb.sst, particululy :10.Yinnouth, and the negleMed batteries there, also to the' neglected. batteries at Lowestoft; 'for if the enemy . possessed biokell of, theses position, it would be difficult to 'remove hirn frot.n it; It was . lull of resources, aed.among the strongest positfousin this couniry, but that which had bet:ft icaSt thought . of, and the most negleded. The . Hon. Gen.:oil then desired to draw tie attention of the House to what had been advanced as to the imp, e-siou_an army might have upon a fortified, town, inha bited, and spewed that the . great. Duke of Marlbo rough, alter the battle of Ramillies, oppeated be fore Antwerp, then in a. strong state of defence, which bad in it twelve regiments; but that. the Duke being in possession ot sne avenues tot .c place, the inhabitants , induced the General to surrender ra ther than risk the destruction of the Thatiin the same campaign the - Duke of Marlbotough ap peared before Ostend, one of the strongest towns in the Low Coontries,,, which, atter. three days siege, aurreuderpl by the inllueoce of the populace. He now drew conclusions from theteinstorical !acts, tbin :Government was juntified to entertain,such an Ex pedition as 'that which had been undvrtaken against the Scheldt, and against Antwerp, even if there was only a single chance of success, the object Wing so great; but he maintained, that bad Cadsand, been possessed according to the plan; and had r ito'- the Admiral been obliged by the weather to carry , The fleet into the Roompot, the Expedition' ronit.:l tAave succeeded, that the enenly not being able 1 )- 'defend the important post of Bat hz, wits a proof of 'the weakness of their force in Anti-verp, for 11 c 4 they been strong there, they never would have eivo i --up iiathz in-the 'manner they did, and Which open - • ed thee.vholeWestScheldt to oor .fleet on the 9-d O f August; • this pitture was sOstrong a one, so strong ly impressed upon the Commander in Chief. .01 the • land forees, that he early detached that plea 3 " -d excellent Officer Sir John Hope to secure that forr.,, :end had the wind allowed of the transpoitis•gettil up the West Scheldt, the Hon. General- mainiai'lleu;-, that the Expedition would in all huenata probabili t Y have succeeded. . • . ; • ,; ,' -- Sir FRANCI4 BURDETT declared that he rose %.'- iI ' a considerable degree of, awe on his mind, from Ow- feeling w hich be entertained of the magnitude of th ,subject, and of his inability to de it that justice, wrbicrk .. us importance demanded. He expressed his a" tenishment at the kind of defeoce . that had.becofe- I sorted,to ; he waS.astonished at the arguments of ti' e 1 1 -Hon. General, who asserted that- because it -'° a d e1 , .. - -teible, and ie .ttte opinion of.: that Hon: Getre° l i a vital obje4l of the. country to reduce "the n 3" means of the eneme, Government - was justified in .nedert'akina ;an: expedition afor that purpose d grounds, t:,e utility of which was so amply evin ced by the documents u n the. table. The Hon. Gene °l had also stated that it might be proper, e threjw a a town -with bombardment in or. ',4 , r to ides} its l'e , ; dualion, and .had quoted an' instante in which til Doke of Marlboronahhad acted uponehat priociple• - tOr•hiiitiaelle however, he ;Must say that the ooct i r i renee thus alluded to was not one which he 5 111 ' w( ' t • letve thought of pointing oat as'. the most .brili' 3ll t : feature in thechairtaer and conduct of that gee nin. The Noble Lord who (lad-commenced the de; relit:e of this illefated Measure - had spoken; 'e.'ith d c ' t most reprehensible indifference of one 'of w' the n s • dreadful calamities which the preseet war, dtsa 4r°l- ,, -as it' had' .been, had ' occisiOned ; and in the l'" I ; seology - peculiar 'to .himself 'lied declared, thatA , `ll, . wished to abide by' the exp e rien ce o f tact.' - 1- ''' ., ', ether ground that the Noble. Lord might haVe tril' e ' l . would. nut !lave b e en so s u rpr i s i ng :it Would " Have been surprising had he stated a variety of l ' g 1 1 soils in extenuation of his, conduit, but .that i )o \ should . declare himself .content to 'have the merits -ti the operation tried-by - theteeidence of the fad as ' truly astonishing.- The Right Hon. Gentleman tdt4; '• the late colleague of the•N o hl e Lord, after man/. ' skilful attempts to divelt the attention of the Hou' el i • Out the only. way of proceeding which Govern i could snecessfeily adopt, was to diStract the riti. t ) of the country, and take it off from the real obiele lo had ;dvancied the most _surprising doairines. 11 1 I had stated, tiyt if the la'apedition had -not bec l) ,': ti a ' sl to Walehel en, it tritn•a - have been sent Q lsewa' )4 The Rieln e: h .ilen. Ge. ad conteinteTh d,•at it itti , I bave been sent 'somewitrre ; _ and afteretannera the various obstacles WhiCh it .1voti1:191a - ve 4 31 t o t- ' '' r I counter :Medi direetions, he reneiuded bv asso° 3 ; rthat it . was necessary to send •;it in, the dire..ll, It in .which it its sew, i hat • was, to 'send- it 40 \)(''' I l • ' t • nor° hoeren, not to. meet the eeetny, but a peail-li --' e , t• disra e, andets had been well said, to be e atiegu'': o . ed like e eaedle in , ki v.11.1:t. In Mardi, who',..',jo Noble Lord appliel to-the Commandei- in Citidl t y ascertain the amount of the disposabe. force, in •• . i .; • coetitry, he 'fituod, thee ri e twe; e a ate e e e 0C ii) o manse expel a e to which the ;Pub w lic ere put ``'; ; tins head, that there were ..rdy - sixteen thomat','o ' t men fit for service: Had this . nu tither, however, ll'', been iudtciuusly enipleyed, the shies at Fin'' i itm 'e ail' • might 'perhaps have be e n ' t a k en , an d, at a ' . ;'. i a the lever would not bite heets eneountered• eat -t Noble Lord's views, hoeiever, were Mere eate° s : oo Ile was anxious to get up a gr e at- ai t eamevt. i '', ' l, March to, June it took to get, up this gtett a r " d 'a •Ment ; I,or the calamities of our tr oo ps i n se" lo ' 0 thinished as Government had endeit , ouresr 1 ° °'' 1 avl ' - them appeer in the eyesof, this: country, 1 1 i & detoly kilt its not the ahlrdbw'ofem army. ly al this armament was at length prepared, it witt'' s e ir out---for what purpose-? TO act ?—.No—t° it " l e neate ; for it. had been proved, that the Cot - ll l ' l l a dens were wholly ignorant of every step;w lP t c ee if t would' ba necessary. for , them to take troth very arrival On the enemy's Sh6res. To' the -°C 0 ,J patron of liathz every thin had been andel:Pa te: a: a ; of easy attainment; On the Coetinent o', o°e or lions difficulties had been apprehended, - 13°I , , 1 •4 these serious difficulties the Expedition tro et e ille rived,. This great ar • mament,' cent - lila:led bY : e h •• greater fully, never reached 'the Place a( W"`, e, • alone obstacles Were forc-Secn . .. Noe was thii w e ~01 ' trairdinary when the nature of the inform:4i ° , - which the NOele Lord d e p en ded wae • Considere.,t e o I - The Noble Lord had, teett in ioi nwd, that At' t `lid and its neighbo.ruood 'were destitute of fort‘c; ag' had no .doubt theta sinallar infmMation 1110' fl received from ',every pet of the Frinib ceo;* 3l ; t e. might be- told Geyer:me-re that Totai-n W 3 ' ‘` ° i ,or ; title oft force ; that Brest wit; destieee of farcl ; e ta, could such Mile:math:la ea fe n ee l ee. , or' if t i m e would_it shine- stn Ex-peduien aglinst . , l ,% a ill, plices ? The •Notpie Lied had applied 'le the; L''';lll enander in Chief to ,e, ' treiin th e ; etacteatbdi ( v ) iit coup, de-main on Aiit ae• e. Tiiia • Ceinte•i° ;ici .' 4 Chief wrote to tour , ; :, , . ~- l i‘vri tin r i b'e. q.ll%lz', • • 'and their :Ulmer--; •.; . e ,:: ••• :teat cc cars ,ae-i "if 4 ; . doe.' They • v.; ; , ieth a e : , 1 a e ,e e end lea:t''', laeguage, het ( ea - e. Ol4 if : ' .1:'1 W . : ' I ': ' ' l l ' I „,, i i f I deck, . .. ' . • . iner r e;y : H. , .. . 11 it SU(7II ald serer ,--d" i • statements eei a • ,I tut Hi f e e heei,. ho,co ir were faliee) . tleit Ile ii, though the 'idea of n"'la 'de-stain wets atese a rd e that n atta e le wes•prild'c' e o . , TJ,i.p ii vi ,,,ci 0,, the N o ble Lord hoe t'' li"O i lie of the inatter.• In the reditary (14_1rJrituenf , ai r Coinniander iii Ciief and the folar Crenerais - Kt': p e ! '' nOthin4 of the inatter.. : lithe Floese leok"i '', l ( l ll'' Naval' Deirrtrnetir, they. woeldtind that Lord Pe` t il; ' grave knew nothing of . I he" Matter, and that S I " i ll Strachan knew nothing .of the matter,, 61 th" t lie wall !peat modesty be told L o rd Mulg-rave at" a y w:ts ready to go with any body who (lid .k" (P4 Y e e' t Meg - of the Matter. 'Th us i n c o m plete iguo r ', el; . fettled thisanighty E44litiute, ta.t.d. t h us were lig ) ,; .tiCotrimitted the lives and h onour o f t b e • British rif L t l r l i In the 'lust opinion giv ei i •by the Comtn"' l 11/ Chief to theNobleLord, he had stated that if •i army were to go to Ost e nd (a pl an w hich Ire cliii - • , reeterised as nearly impossible), it woutd" Ke e ) teen days to march them to Flushing. ' It '',,, ,e1 1 ' 1 however that it took a longe t . time to get to; u 1 I -